Whooping Cough
(source: this song is titled "Jaybird" in "Musical Fun With The Brownie Pack", Girl Guides Association, 1986; also in "Campfire Activities", Girl Guides of Canada, 1993.)

I said a way down the road

Not so very far off

A jay bird died

Of the whooping cough

Well he whooped so hard

Of the whooping cough

That he whooped his head

And his tail right off!